Ideogram 4.0: Open-Weight 9.3B Diffusion Transformer That Tops Arena's Open Image Leaderboard
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Ideogram published a technical blog describing Ideogram 4.0 as a 9.3B Diffusion Transformer trained from scratch with a frozen 8B VLM text encoder, releasing fp8 and nf4 checkpoints — the nf4 variant fitting on a single 24GB GPU. Arena placed Ideogram 4.0 Quality in the text-to-image top tier and as the leading open-weight image model. For builders, it's a rare combination of frontier-tier image quality and genuinely local-deployable open weights.